Cassis

After Avignon, we continued along the coast of Southern France to Cassis, a super cute beach town. It’s a popular vacation spot so it wasn’t as local French as we had hoped, but the hiking was so gorgeous!

Our AirBnb was a tiny hostel, like the tiniest place I have ever seen but so cute. We met people from all over – Spain, Germany, New Zealand, and Brazil – in just the two days we were there.

We hiked out to the Calanques. It was a pretty long and hilly hike, but the views and beach were so worth it! Make sure to bring a lot of water if you go. I had two giant bottles, one of them frozen, and drank both! If hiking isn’t for you, you can get to the Calanques by boat, kayak, or even stand-up paddle board!

We hiked straight out to Calanque d’en Vau and, as you can see, it was very popular! The water was so nice and we packed a delicious picnic.

We took the train throughout most of our trip. The trains in France are less reliable than other countries. We dealt with a few stressful train delays or rescheduling, but the craziest story is that when we were on our way from Cassis to St Paul de Vence, our train had an electrical failure and we had to get out and walk to the station! Good thing we were pretty close! It only took like five minutes to get there but it was quite the experience!

 

If walls could dream… they’d dream of hiking to beautiful French beaches!